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For the first time in their organization’s history, the Tampa Bay Lightning have a prospect named as a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award. On Thursday, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation named the three finalists for the 2025 award. Among those names was Lightning prospect Isaac Howard. The Michigan State forward continues his path being named the first Hobey Baker Award … [Read more...] about Lightning Morning News: Isaac Howard officially a finalist for Hobey Baker Award

Moments after announcing they had signed one of their own former sixth-round picks in Connor Kurth, the Tampa Bay Lightning announced that they had traded for, and signed, one of the Carolina Hurricane’s former sixth-round picks. In exchange for a 2025 sixth-round pick, the Lightning acquired the rights to forward Lucas Mercuri (pronounced like the planet…or well…car), and then … [Read more...] about Lightning trade for, and sign, prospect Lucas Mercuri

There haven’t been many nights where the wins have come easy for the Tampa Bay Lightning. On Tuesday, they had one of those evenings as they scored early and often against the Pittsburgh Penguins on their way to a 6-1 victory. Skating in his 500th career regular-season game, Anthony Cirelli had two goals while Nikita Kucherov cracked the 100-point barrier for the fifth time in … [Read more...] about Lightning skate to easy 6-1 victory over Penguins

In the closing seconds of regulation against the Dallas Stars, the Tampa Bay Lightning lined up to take a defensive zone face-off following an icing call with about six seconds left on the clock. The Stars won the face-off and Thomas Harley wristed a shot towards the net. As he has done 1,991 times previously in his 15-year career Ryan McDonagh blocked the shot. The veteran was … [Read more...] about Lightning defender’s status unknown after taking a puck to the face

Andrei Vasilevskiy was perfect on a night when the Tampa Bay Lightning and Philadelphia played an entertaining, but low-scoring game that ended with the Bolts victorious by a score of 2-0. Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway, and then assisted on Jake Guentzel’s late power-play goal to broach the 95-point milestone on the season. Ivan Fedotov was the had-luck loser in net as … [Read more...] about Lightning run winning streak to two as Vasilevskiy shuts out Flyers, 2-0